Abaco Islands Bliss
Finding Your Perfect Bahamas Escape, A Complete Guide to the Bahamas' Hidden yachtsman's paradise
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The Lucayan Indians, a subgroup of the Arawaks, who lived in the Bahamas in the ninth century, are the first people whose history of the Abaco Islands is known to exist. These pioneers were mainly fishermen and conch gatherers who made their living near the coast. But when Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, their tranquil existence abruptly came to an end. The Lucayans were eventually driven from the Bahamas by the Spanish early in the 16th century, after they were taken as slaves and forced to labor in the mines of Hispaniola. Like much of the Bahamas, the Abaco Islands wer...
The Lucayan Indians, a subgroup of the Arawaks, who lived in the Bahamas in the ninth century, are the first people whose history of the Abaco Islands is known to exist. These pioneers were mainly fishermen and conch gatherers who made their living near the coast. But when Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, their tranquil existence abruptly came to an end. The Lucayans were eventually driven from the Bahamas by the Spanish early in the 16th century, after they were taken as slaves and forced to labor in the mines of Hispaniola. Like much of the Bahamas, the Abaco Islands were mainly deserted for the following few centuries, with the exception of the odd time when privateers and pirates used them as a hideout. These nautical outlaws found the islands to be the perfect place to hide out because of their advantageous location and plenty of natural harbors. The British didn't show much interest in the Bahamas until the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In an effort to stop piracy, they established permanent settlements and declared the islands to be a British Crown Colony in 1718. The Abaco Islands' history underwent a sea change during the American Revolution (1775-1783). After the conflict, loyalists to the British Crown fled to the Bahamas where they brought slaves from Africa, shipbuilding expertise, and agricultural knowledge. The first permanent towns in the Abacos, like as Marsh Harbour, Hope Town, and Man-O-War Cay, were constructed by these Loyalists in addition to plantations. The demographic and cultural makeup of the islands was drastically changed by the arrival of loyalist settlers and Africans held in slavery.